Samskara

Introduction The short novel Samskara by U. R. Anantha Murthy, professor for side at the Mysore University, created a big furore in Karnataka when it was promulgated more(prenominal) than thirty years ago. With this novel Anantha Murthy, a brahmin himself, held aloft a clear mirror to the brahmin union. He make up the question What is actually culture (Samskara) - is it achieved by blindly conterminous rules and traditions, is it lost when they argon not kept? The background for this perpetual question, which actually remains unresolved even in this novel, is the samskara (funeral) of Naranappa, a brahmin who rejected his brahminhood. (Among the several meanings of the word samskara, some of the heavy(predicate) ones be culture, funeral and ritual.) In 1970 Samskara was made into an award-winning film, one of the a few(prenominal) art films of its kind in the Kannada language. Samskara is the story of life in an agrahara, a narrow street in which brahmins belonging to t he Madhwa association (followers of guru Madhwa; Shankara, Madhwa and Ramanuja are the three most famous philosophers of ancient India) live. The agrahara of Samskara is set(p) in a tiny hamlet called Durvasapura, somewhere in the westbound ghats (mountain range) of southern India. The brahmins of this agrahara are utterly decadent, narrow-minded, selfish, greedy, jealous.

Their brahminhood consists solely of fulfilling rules, side by side(p) traditions which are thousands of years old. They do not understand because they follow the rules. They do not care to understand. They are afraid(predicate) that if they do not follow the rules, disasters will fall! upon them. They ace safe as long as they follow rules and traditions. Durvasapura and its agrahara are famous in the surrounding area, because of two brahmins who live there. virtuoso of them is Praneshacharya and the other one is Naranappa. Praneshacharya went to Kashi (Benaras), studied there, and returned with the title Crest-Jewel of Vedic learning. He is the local guru of all the brahmins, not...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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